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Originally Posted by randallscott35
Inferior is a strong word, I sure didn't use it....But the fact that IQ is a relative predictor of future success shouldn't be simply discarded. If you have an IQ of 80 and aren't an athlete, you won't be rich. Done deal. If its 150, you may not be rich either, but you'll have a shot.
By the way, I dont think being rich is the end all of how to rate success as a human being. But since so many do, we might as well go with it in this thread.
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Well, if you use wealth as the measure you are skewing the results from my point of view but lets discuss that...an "idiot sevant" can have an IQ of 60 and end up wealthy. Mine is over 150 and I'm poor as a church mouse so there are always exceptions. My argument is that we judge a person's value by their possessions and apply labels based on same. If we viewed everyone as equal, then there would be no reason to rank them and "poor" would be a meaningless term. I believe in free will but realize we are molded by our experiences (environment) so nobody is destined to "always be" anything. Again...this is my opinion, my view...and it is a minority view!